Fox News' Kat Timpf returns from maternity leave to a warm bath of Greg Gutfeld's mockery

Los Angeles Times

17-06-2025

Turns out Kat Timpf is now one of the people she used to want to throw up on.
Timpf's transformation was revealed Monday in her return to Fox News' late-night show 'Gutfeld,' where she had a regular co-host seat before going out on maternity leave in February.
That leave included a breast cancer diagnosis that came just 15 hours before she gave birth. Soon after delivery, she had a double mastectomy.
'For you keeping score, Kat had sex, which in getting pregnant cured her cancer, meaning sex cures cancer,' host Greg Gutfeld explained. That said, the show did welcome back its missing libertarian with semi-seriousness.
'We're super happy Kat's returned. We missed her dearly. We know the future will still be hard for her. There will be other hurdles, I'm sure, but we have faith in her, as much as I hope she has faith in us, to be here when things get rough or when things get better,' Gutfeld said, 'but she still complains. So, please welcome Kat back and congratulate her for kicking out a baby and kicking cancer.'
Timpf quickly laid it all out there about what she'd done on her three-month spring break.
'So, I am boob-free,' said the co-host, who is married since 2021 to former Army Ranger Cameron Friscia. 'I am cancer-free as well. So, I'm very, yeah, I'm very excited about it.
'It was, it was a hard thing to go through, and it still is, as you know, you mentioned, I still have reconstruction surgeries ahead. I still have things to go through, tough thing to go through, easy decision to make because, like, I didn't want to risk my life for some f— 32 As.'
'Been there,' co-host Tyrus joked.
Seriously, Timpf says she loves being a mom, even with the personal drama that accompanied it.
'The whole thing, the way that it happened, it really was truly insane,' she said. 'I really had a day between the cancer diagnosis and the labor, and we don't know for sure what happened. I could have gotten cancer because I was pregnant, and even if I did, he's still so worth it, because I love him so much. And I know that's so cheesy, and I know that's so gross, and I used to hear people say that, and like how I can't imagine my life without him.
'And I used to want to throw up on them, but now I'm one of those people.'
'Yeah, you know what?' Gutfeld said. 'It's called a transformational experience where you couldn't even go back in time and explain to yourself what it's like.' (He had his own transformational experience slightly before Timpf did: The 60-year-old and wife Elena Moussa welcomed baby girl Mira in December.)
Fill-in host Kennedy, a mother of two, said she was just trying not to cry now that Timpf was back and a mom and healthy, and finally Tyrus got to welcome back his 'partner in crime,' saying, 'It's been f— horrible. Thank God you're back.' He also lobbied for Kennedy to get a permanent chair on 'Gutfeld!'
Then he announced he had a surprise for the kiddo he had nicknamed 'Big Ben,' thanks to a sonogram picture he saw where the baby was the same length as a wristwatch.
'I have a gift for Big Ben, because every young man starting out in the world needs to have — now, he can't have it right now, you got to wait, but — he needs to have his own Godzilla,' the comic and former pro wrestler said. 'So, this is for Big Ben's first — this is Big Ben's first action figure. Not a doll.'
'This ain't girl stuff. This is an action figure for Big Ben.'
Gutfeld, meanwhile, had already given the gift of advice to Baby Timpf-Friscia. During his monologue, he noted that the little guy 'came into the world already a hero, for he saved his mommy's life.'
'If I were him, I would hold that over her head every chance I get,' Gutfeld said. He specifically suggested the child use it as leverage to get his hands on the car keys before he is legally old enough to drive and possibly to procure some Mike's Hard Lemonade.
And, because the show has running jokes about the hosts of 'The View,' he couldn't help but compliment Timpf for tackling her cancer, noting she had 'tackled it head-on, like Joy Behar shoving aside security at a KFC grand opening.'